That (along with a clean balance sheet) helps the company stay profitable even when sales decline.
State Bank of India, by far the largest state outfit, has a comparatively clean balance-sheet.
With a clean balance sheet following bankruptcy, GM is going after Toyota customers with a new round of incentives.
With its selling savvy and clean balance sheet, the 181-store chain posted an impressive 12.8% same-store sales gain over the past year.
But after emerging from bankruptcy in 2009 with a clean balance sheet, lower labor costs and fewer obligations, it should be doing better.
LaSorda said he was "very, very excited" about Cerberus' investment, noting that the deal will allow Chrysler to start fresh with a clean balance sheet.
Investor enthusiasm is high because GM, following its government-run bankruptcy in mid-2009, is much healthier now, with a competitive cost structure and clean balance sheet.
Chung writes that she now favors companies with large recurring revenue streams, plus strong secular growth opportunities, clean balance sheets and shareholder-friendly capital allocation policies.
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Just like 3-D, it has a very clean balance sheet.
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During the Swedish banking crisis of 1993, the government put troubled banks into receivership at once, then quickly relaunched them with clean balance sheets so that they could resume lending.
In Korea, for instance, while the largest lenders creak under non-performing business loans built up during the decades of rapid industrialization, a relative upstart like Shinhan Bank (est. 1981, No. 61 in the 500) can plot bold moves with its clean balance sheet.
Solid payroll advances, clean corporate balance sheets, capital spending increases--all portend good things ahead.
But the key point is that Chapter 11 would have provided an orderly workout, giving the auto makers the legal protection to clean up balance sheets, modify contracts and restructure under due process.
The lesson of every big banking crisis in recent history is that rapid and decisive government action to clean up balance-sheets results in a quicker recovery and smaller long-term damage to the public purse.
Financial regulators everywhere must push banks to clean up their balance-sheets and bolster their capital.
Paulson also urged banks and other financial institutions to come clean about weak balance sheets.
And banks have faced little competitive pressure to clean up their balance sheets.
He sees signs of this turnaround in the last quarter and believes that improvements in the liquidity of the company will clean up the balance sheet.
Meanwhile, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss Kahn, told the BBC that the most important thing was for countries to clean up their balance sheets.
It will take a while to clean up the refinery enough to get it running at full speed and a while to clean up its balance sheet enough to restart the stock offering.
But for every Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Sumitomo or Tokai trying, albeit belatedly, to clean up their balance sheets, there are dozens of lesser banks in Japan that continue to sweep their dreadful bad-debt problems under the carpet.
After being forced to clean up their balance sheets from the peak indebtedness levels seen in 2008, deleveraged consumers have been able to face increased costs of living, according to Brian Sozzi of Wall Street Strategies.
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Furthermore, even by the relatively hygienic standards of most insurers, the asset side of Lloyd's' balance-sheet is squeaky clean, while the toxic claims that brought it to its knees in the 1990s are now parcelled off to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
We are going to have to work with the banks in an effective way to clean up their balance sheets so that some trust is restored within the marketplace, because right now part of the problem is that nobody really knows what's on the banks' books.
And when we learn that a major bank has serious problems, we will hold accountable those responsible, force the necessary adjustments, provide the support to clean up their balance sheets, and assure the continuity of a strong, viable institution that can serve our people and our economy.
At the same time, Mr. Rothschild publicly accused Bumi PLC's locally-listed affiliate Bumi Resources of failing to clean up its balance sheet, including calling in loans to related parties that he argued fell short of U.K. governance rules but which Bumi Resources said had been disclosed in due diligence.
Even the wines with residual sugar possess a balance and structure so fine and clean that the wine just sings.
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The deleveraging of the private sector is nearly complete and governments have taken steps to clean up their own balance-sheets and create the room for economies to breathe.
Treasury still has in place plans to purchase toxic assets to clean up banks' balance sheets, but the administration's primary goal now seems to be direct injection of capital into banks.
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